Score an end
Ready when: nothing needed.
What you are learning
How archery is scored: the value of each ring, what happens when an arrow touches a line, and how to write an end down and add it up. Archers score their own arrows, so a child who can score is ready for the range.
Words on this card Range, Ends, Target face, X
- Range
- The marked place where archery is shot: a shooting line, targets in front, a safe area behind.
- Ends
- A set number of arrows shot before everyone walks forward to score: often 3 or 6.
- Target face
- The paper with the coloured rings.
- X
- The small ring inside the centre. It scores 10 and is counted to break ties.
Set up
A printed target face; a pencil; a score sheet.
Weather: any weather
Show it first for the one teaching
- Point to the rings from the outside in: white 1 and 2, black 3 and 4, blue 5 and 6, red 7 and 8, gold 9 and 10, and the X in the centre.
- Mark a pencil dot on the line between two rings and show that it takes the higher score.
- Write six scores highest first, then add them up.
Your part while they practise
Mark six "hits" on the face with a pencil; the child scores them.
Step by step
- You mark six pencil dots on the face.
- The child names the score of each dot. A dot on a line takes the higher ring.
- The child writes the six scores highest first.
- The child adds them up. 5 ends.
How much: 5 ends 5 min a session 2 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Score checker
One player marks the arrows, the other scores them, and the marker checks.
Who plays: the child and a grown-up.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- One player marks six pencil "arrows" on a fresh face
- The other scores them, writes them highest first and adds them
- The marker checks the scoring
- Swap. 5 ends each
- Fair play
- A younger child scores three marks per end.
- Points
- 1 point for each end scored and added with no mistake; 1 point for each mistake you catch in the other player's end.
- Fouls
- No point for that end
- A line hit scored as the lower ring
- Scores not written highest first
- A wrong total
- Winning
- More points after 5 ends each.
- 3 points for 1 star
- 5 points for 2 stars
- 7 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
Three hits per end.
Total a full round of 6 ends.
What you will see, and what to say
- a line hit scored low
On the line, take the higher
If it touches the line, it scores the better ring. - scores written in any order
Highest first, then add
Biggest number first, then the next.
Self-check
5 ends scored and added with no mistake.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains scoring, reading the target.
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